The construction is part of the Metra Electric Community Initiative to modernize 13 stations on the line stretching from the Loop to the far south suburbs.

As Di Santo noted, the Illinois Railway starts in Ottawa, goes through downtown Yorkville and Oswego and meets up with BNSF ...

A BNSF Metra train was delayed about to 40 minutes today due to a fatal accident with a pedestrian, according to Metra. A BNSF line train was traveling eastbound towards Chicago Union Station when it ...

Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski's grim warning last week to the transit agency's board of directors was in many ways a ...

Soon after I drove into Durand on an August 1959 visit, this train from Pontiac arrived behind Grand Trunk ... but would be ...

Commuter operator Metra says it is considering the rarely used option of outside financing to address its increasingly urgent ...

COOK COUNTY - A Metra train struck a vehicle near Melrose Park on Thursday, causing significant delays during the evening rush hour. The duration of the delay is unknown, according to the transit ...

MELROSE PARK, Ill. — Metra riders faced some delays during rush hour on Thursday after a train hit a car in the western suburbs. In an update shared on X by Metra at around 5:10 p.m. Thursday ...

The Port of Charleston's $400 million rail yard is moving toward its scheduled July opening with the delivery this week of key machinery needed to move cargo containers between trains and trucks.

The Nagle avenue Metra crossing in Norwood Park as seen on Jan. 15, 2025. Credit: Molly DeVore/ Block Club Chicago Curtis Cornwell lives just two blocks away from the Nagle Avenue crossing and works ...

Some lawmakers have floated merging RTA, CTA, Metra and ... the Chicago area could see massive improvements in its current transit system. Among the ambitious goals are vastly reduced wait times of ...